Agenda

Wintergreen, Virginia
8 - 11 July 2008



Tuesday, July 8

8:30 - 9:30 Introductory Remarks and Review of Action Items from Previous Meetings - W. Baker

9:30 - 10:00 NASA Headquarters Perspective - R. Kakar

10:00 - 10:20 Break

10:20 - 11:00 Data Processing for ESA’s Doppler Wind Lidar Mission ADM-Aeolus - D. Tan

11:00 - 11:30 Airborne Doppler Wind Lidar: Recent Results and In-flight Visualization Using Google Earth - D. Emmitt, S. Shipley, S. Greco and S. Wood

11:30 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 1:20 Update on Winter T-PARC - Y. Song

1:20 - 1:40 Status of P3DWL for T-PARC and TSC-08 - D. Emmitt

1:40 - 2:00 Status of the Tropospheric Wind Lidar Technology Experiment (TWiLiTE) Instrument Incubator Program - B. Gentry, M. McGill, G. Schwemmer, M. Hardesty, A. Brewer, T. Wilkerson, R. Atlas, M. Sirota, S. Lindemann, F. Hovis

2:00 - 2:30 Update on Single Frequency Laser Developments for the Tropospheric Wind Lidar Technology Experiment (TWiLiTE) and High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL/Ozone DIAL Instrument Incubator Programs - F. Hovis, J. Edelman, T. Schum, K. Andes, B. Gentry, M. McGill, T. Cook, J. Hair, C, Hostetler, D. Harper

2:30 - 3:00 Preparing Coherent Doppler Lidars for the DC-8 and WB-57 - M. Kavaya, G. Koch, U. Singh, B. Trieu, J. Yu

3:00 - 3:20 Break

3:20 - 3:50 The Data Assimilation Ensemble Technique for Assessing Observing System Impact Applied to Simulated ADM-Aeolus Data - D. Tan

3:50 - 4:20 Recent Results from WSR 2008 - Y. Song

4:20 - 4:40 Update on Joint OSSEs: Simulation of DWL and Radiance Data - M. Masutani

4:40 - 4:50 More on Shear Statistics for DWL Data Processing - S. Greco, D. Emmitt

4:50 - 5:10 Multi-Year Doppler Wind Lidar Experiment to Assess Instrument Performance in a Wide Variety of Atmospheric Conditions - B. Gentry, B. Demoz, D. Venable, G. Koch, U. Singh

Wednesday, July 9

8:30 - 8:50 Assessing the Minimum Requirements of Doppler Lidar Wind Measurements for Climate Studies and High-Impact Weather Forecasting - Z. Pu, B. Gentry, B. Demoz

8:50 - 9:20 Long Lifetime Operation of Coherent Doppler Wind Lidar in Space - F. Amzajerdian

9:20 - 9:40 Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar (OAWL) Progress and Plans - C. Grund, B. Pierce, J. Howell, C. Weimer

9:40 - 10:10 Short-Term Prediction of Measurement Precision of the Radial Wind Velocity in the Turbulent Atmosphere - A. Shelekov

10:10 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 10:40 Update on the Cal/Val Proposal Submitted to ESA - M. Hardesty

10:40 - 11:00 The History of the Seasat Sensor Follow-On Missions - R. Brown

11:00 - 11:30 Laser Reliability and the 3-D Winds Mission - M. Kavaya

11:30 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 1:20 Airborne Doppler Lidar Analyses and Adaptive Targeting System (ADLAATS): Integrating Mesoscale Models with DWL Data in Realtime - D. Emmitt, S. de Wekker, S. Greco, S. Wood

1:20 - 1:40 BalloonWinds Update--Straight to Launch – J. Ryan

1:40 - 2:10 NPOESS Next Generation Considerations - S. Mango

2:10 - 3:00 NexGen NPOESS Wind Observing Sounder: NASA/GSFC Instrument Development Laboratory Study and Findings - S. Mango, W. Baker, B. Gentry

3:00 - 3:20 Break

3:20 - 3:40 DWL Operations within a Sensor Web Modeling and Data Assimilation System: Recent Results - M. Seabloom, S. Talabac, G. McConaughy, J. Ardizzone, G. Brin, B. Womak, R. Burns, S. Wood, D. Emmitt

3:40 - 4:00 Comments on the Progress in Wind Lidar Technology - J. Theon

4:00 - 5:00 Open Discussion

Thursday, July 10

8:30 - 9:00 Update on Airline Fuel Costs - K. Miller

9:00 - 10:00 Discussion of a Strategy for Funding the ADM Cal/Val Proposal Efforts - M. Hardesty

10:00 - 10:20 Break

10:20 - 11:30 Discussion of the Next NWOS Study Phase - NWOS Mission Definition Team

11:30 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 5:00 Subcommittee Discussions

Friday, July 11

8:30 - 9:00 Presentation of Short Subjects

9:00 - 9:30 Subcommittee Reports and Recommendations

9:30 - 10:30 Review of Action Items; Next Meeting(s)

10:30 Adjourn